Promise Technology FastTrak TX4310, User Manual

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Chapter 1: Introduction
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FastTrak TX4310 bootable BIOS supports individual drives larger than 137 GB.
With FAT32 and NTFS partitioning, the disk array can be addressed as one large
single volume.
WebPAM Software
The Web-based Promise Array Management (WebPAM) RAID management
software offers local management and monitoring of FastTrak disk arrays.
Browser-based GUI provides email notification of all major events/alarms,
memory cache management, logging for Windows servers, disk array
maintenance, rebuild, and access to all components in disk array (server,
controller, data channels, individual drives, and enclosure). For information on
using WebPAM, refer to “Chapter 5: WebPAM” on page 43.
Key Features and Benefits
The following information offers an overview of the major features of your new
Promise FastTrak TX4310 RAID Controller card.
Advanced Hardware Design
Features Benefits
Supports 66 MHz PCI bus
motherboards (automatically
backward compatible with 33
MHz PCI slots) Allows maximum data transfers of up to 266MB
per second (133 MB/s in 33 MHz slot) over the
bus to dramatically reduce the time to save and
retrieve large files.
Supports:
data stripe (RAID 0), mirror
(RAID 1), data stripe plus
parity (RAID 5) and mirror/
stripe (RAID 10) Provides dramatic increase in drive performance
and/or fault tolerant options. Offers performance
customization and data rebuilds from the BIOS
menu.
Serial ATA Specification II Burst data transfer rates up to 3.0 Gb/s from
Serial ATA drives to boost overall system
performance.
Independent data channels
for Serial ATA drives Drives can multiply their data transfer
performance when striped together and each
drive uses a separate data channel.
PCI Plug-n-Play, PCI Interrupt
sharing and coexists with
motherboard IDE and SCSI
controllers Easy to install; supports up to 4 Serial ATA
drives on the FastTrak RAID Controller card
while still supporting 4 devices on motherboard
ATA controller.
Supports multiple disk arrays TX4310 supports up to 4 disk arrays.